State of the Union Address:Campaign memory bytes from G.W. Bush

Tell me this is all bipartisan nonsense and I'll tell you that you are being duped--big time.  For instance, Bush sold his followers on the privatization of Social Security and this left the talking heads of the Democratic Party crying fowl.

But you should be aware that the so called brilliant idea everyone seems to be crediting Bush for was really one of 3 studies that we the taxpayers paid for out of our "surplus" during the Clinton Administration.  In fact, it was President Bill Clinton who commissioned the Entitlement and Tax Reform, who set up the Advisory Council on Social Security and who set up the National Commission on Retirement Policy beginning in 1993 going through 1998. 

The three recommendations of these studies can be found on the following website.

 A Review of the Findings of the Social Security Advisory Council

http://www.house.gov/jec/fiscal/budget/advisory/advisory.htm

         Here is an excerpt for those who don't wish to link.

The Advisory Council's Reform Recommendations      The Advisory Council members unanimously agreed that Social Security is financially unviable in the long-run, and the existing pay-as-you-go structure should be changed. However, they could not agree on a single plan of action. Instead, they were divided among three factions, each favoring a separate proposal.

The Maintenance of Benefits (MB) plan proposes to essentially maintain the present structure of Social Security. The plan would raise revenue by increasing taxes on Social Security benefits and increasing payroll taxes by 1.6 percent of payroll beginning in 2045. The plan may possibly invest up to 40 percent of the trust fund's assets in equities. A policy board, nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, would manage the investments.
A second plan proposes to create Individual Accounts (IA) funded with a mandatory 1.6 percent payroll tax. The accounts would be held by the government with limited investment choices for individuals. Taxes on Social Security benefits would also be raised under this plan.
The Personal Security Accounts (PSA) plan would direct five percentage points of the current payroll tax into private accounts. Accounts would be held by the individual and invested according to discretion. The PSA plan would create a two-tiered system consisting of flat benefits and proceeds from the PSAs.

 So Bush, once again wows the Republican followers and gets some support from the Democrats when it comes to strengthening our laws and actions regarding illegal immigration.  Guess whose words he stole.  Could they have come from Bill Clinton's 1996 Immigration Act?

 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996

Here is the actual link address if you want it.
http://uscis.gov/graphics/publicaffairs/factsheets/948.htm

Another brilliant piece on Clinton's immigration policy can be found at:

                                     www.closeup.org/immigrat.htm

Virtually every so called Republican idea Bush has proposed came out of the Clinton Administration.  The more I watch this president, the more I am convinced that he is Bill Clinton's puppet just as Bill Clinton was GHW Bush's work horse.

So please people, tell me how the things Clinton and Bush have intended to do all along ever became a wedge between our political parties.  Seems to me they agree by their actions and their words but pretend to hate each other.  Do we have to pretend to hate each other just because they do?  I hope this will wake us up to the facts that lies divide, illusions create division, and truth can unite.

Love ya,

Chelle Stockman